Concord errors in the writings of Sefwi Wiawso Anglican Junior High School students

Abstract

The importance of English Language cannot be underrated in the whole wide world since it is an international language. One of the topics which is essential for the understanding and better appreciation of English Language is concord. The topic for the research is concord errors in the writings of Junior High School. The purpose of the research is to find out the problems of concord errors students commit and causes of concord errors. The research work explores the effective ways of teaching concord form one and two students of Anglican Junior High School in Sefwi Wiawso. The objectives of the research were to find out concord errors the students commit, causes of such errors and to find out the appropriate ways to be used in the teaching concord. The population of the study consisted of two hundred and four (204) students, a sample size of thirty (30) were selected. The researcher wanted to ascertain the concord errors students commit, why they commit such errors and how the teaching of concord can effectively be done. The study found out that the concord errors students commit were: grammatical concord, proximity concord, notional concord and gender concord. The study also found out that the causes of concord errors were grammatical, proximity, notional and gender, students’ inability to identify the nominal head, pronoun and its antecedent concord. The researcher recommended that, teaching of grammar should be integrated into four basic skills namely; listening, speaking, reading and writing.